833: Nadya Zhexembayeva - "Thrive in Chaos"
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In Ventures magazine calls her \\u201cThe Reinvention Guru.\\u201d TEDx Navasink calls her \\u201cThe Queen of Reinvention.\\u201d Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva\\xa0is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author specializing in resilience and reinvention.
As a consultant and an educator, Nadya helped such companies as Coca-Cola, IBM, Cisco, L\\u2019Oreal Group, Danone, Kohler, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group reinvent their products, leadership practices, and business models to meet new market demands and prepare for incoming disruptions. Until 2016, she served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in Slovenia, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability.
As a speaker, she delivered keynotes to more than 100,000 executives \\u2013 including four TEDx talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA.
Nadya is the author of a number of books, including Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World, which was named Best Book of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, and Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage, which was selected as one of the Best Sustainability Books of All Times by BookAuthority.
In one of the more powerful and meaningful episodes of Thrive LouD you\\u2019ll ever find - Nadya shares with Lou the importance of change in all of our lives and how we need to approach and embrace it.
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